Stage set for massive grade cricket clash between David Warner and Steve Smith

With six Allan Border Medals between them - not to mention the tag of 'best young batsman since Ricky Ponting', which was given to Sangha by Kerry O'Keeffe this week - it's a roll call of names that would bring much needed star-power to Australia's current one-day series against South Africa, which started earlier this week with a turgid and one-sided match in Perth and continues today in Adelaide.

While the Australian public struggles to find a reason to get on board with a national team in crisis, in Sydney this Saturday crowds will flock to Coogee Oval to watch banned duo Smith and Warner lock horns in a grade cricket match for the ages.

Smith has this week made headlines for both positive and negative reasons, with The Daily Telegraph widely criticised for an 'expose' that followed him on a night out in Manly after he had played a club cricket match for Sutherland on the northern beaches.

It drew a strong reaction on social media and then the mainstream media, with Smith finding plenty of support for the way he has conducted himself at club cricket level as he serves his ban for his role in the ball-tampering saga that has put Cricket Australia's administration, as well as the team Smith led, into the spotlight.

Facing his former Australian vice-captain, who has been peeling off centuries for fun for Randwick-Petersham, Smith will be determined to put a trying week behind him when he walks to the pitch in one of the most anticipated Sydney grade cricket matches in well over a decade.

It's a match up that is being trumpeted by the home club, with Randwick-Peterson sending out a press release touting the "galaxy of international stars" set to grace the humble but beautiful Coogee Oval.

"Australia’s two premier batsmen, David Warner and Steve Smith, will be the headline acts in a limited overs showdown to start from 10am," the press release boasts.

"But the highly-decorated pair – who have won the past four Allan Border Medals between them – will also have heavy duty support acts.

"Sutherland master blaster Shane Watson – another two-time Allan Border Medal winner as the most outstanding player in Australian cricket – joins Smith in the visitors’ ranks.

"Randwick Petersham, boasting Warner at the top of the order, will debut one of England’s most exciting run machines in this match in Daniel Bell Drummond. The 25-year-old made a 92-ball hundred for Kent against the touring Australians three years ago and has played for the England Lions.

"Randwick Petersham will also have the services of NSW Sheffield Shield and one-day stars Jason Sangha and Daniel Sams."

Warne wants to 'make cricket great again'

While Sangha is one of the best of the young brigade coming through, the greater intrigue is over the futures of Warner and Smith as they prepare to fight their way back into the Australian side in time for next year's ODI World Cup and an away Ashes series.

According to the president of Randwick-Petersham, former fast bowler Mike Whitney, Warner couldn't have done any more at club level in his quest for redemption.